{"id":21491,"date":"2023-05-16T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=21491"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:37:12","slug":"campus-canines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/campus-canines\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time, Canines Cavorted on the Hill\u2014Even in Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Doggone it! Recalling a furrier era, when free-roaming, four-legged friends were a ubiquitous part of campus life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For much of the 20th century, the Ithaca campus had truly \u201cgone to the dogs\u201d: canines were allowed to not only romp and roam on the grassy quads, but to visit their human friends in lecture halls, libraries, and dining halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the University attempted for decades\u2014albeit halfheartedly, ineffectively, or both\u2014to enact a variety of bans, the seemingly constant presence of four-legged friends on the Hill lasted well into the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Willard … Stray? <\/figcaption><\/figure>
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It was only after several students got nipped during a chemistry exam that real enforcement of existing leash laws began, finally putting an end to the furry freedoms on campus by the \u201980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike most Cornellians from the \u201970s, I remember dogs being everywhere,\u201d says Doug Little, PhD \u201978, \u201cfrom the Ivy Room in the Straight to the Temple of Zeus in Goldwin Smith to various classrooms.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Immerman \u201971 had one of those dogs\u2014an Irish setter named Hans who accompanied him to campus, \u201cwhere he would roam free all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy classmates were dumbfounded as to how he memorized my schedule,\u201d Immerman recalls. \u201cHe would visit my classes and walk through the rows of chairs, one by one, until he found me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Little\u2019s favorite Cornell \u201cshaggy dog\u201d stories involves legendary professor Walter LaFeber<\/a>. When Little was TA-ing LaFeber\u2019s U.S. foreign relations class in Ives Hall one day in the late 1970s, two dogs wandered in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot a problem; Walt liked dogs,\u201d Little recalls. \u201cAnd then the dogs started to become \u2026 amorous<\/em>. So I got up and shooed them outside and closed the door. Walt quipped, \u2018That\u2019s the \u201copen-door policy\u201d in action\u2019\u2014and brought down the house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Arts Quad occasionally had the air of a dog park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An early anecdote that typifies the omnipresence of dogs on campus appears in As I Remember<\/em>, a memoir by former law professor Allan Treman 1921, JD 1924, who recalls a 1921 concert featuring a world-famous pianist\u2014and an uninvited guest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSergei Rachmaninoff was playing in the middle of the Bailey Hall stage on a grand piano,\u201d Treman wrote. \u201cOne of the larger campus dogs made his way into the building, walked onto the stage in the middle of a long number, and gently sniffed at Rachmaninoff\u2019s left hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pianist, Treman recalled, was unfazed. \u201cAside from a couple of dirty looks at the dog, he kept playing as if nothing amiss was going on,\u201d he observed, noting: \u201cThe applause at the end of the number was twice as loud as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dogs were indeed tolerated\u2014and, by many, welcomed\u2014on the Hill for years, some becoming unofficial mascots. The most famous may have been a three-legged husky named Chinook (nicknamed \u201cTripod\u201d), a house dog of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity and a frequent campus visitor during the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The famed (or, to felines, infamous) \u201cTripod.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After being involved in a mini-scandal in which he (directly or indirectly) caused the death of a cat and was banished from campus, Tripod moved to Alaska with his human companion, Roger Burggraf \u201955, BS \u201956\u2014though he made a lasting impression by getting his senior portrait in the 1959 yearbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the campus was reportedly dog-friendly from its founding, attempts to ban dogs go back at least a century; a 1924 New York Times<\/em> article described the University\u2019s efforts to enact a decree that had never been strictly enforced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe result was that the dogs brought their friends, their friends\u2019 friends, their relatives, and their progeny,\u201d the Times<\/em> reported, \u201cincreasing the collection of campus canines to such an extent that their noise, their frolics, and their presence aroused the displeasure of the Faculty, which has refused to tolerate the disturbance longer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dogs brought their friends, their friends\u2019 friends, their relatives, and their progeny.<\/p>\nThe New York Times<\/em><\/strong>, 1924<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The crackdown either didn\u2019t last or was ineffective, because a similar effort was made a generation later. In Cornell: A History, 1940\u20132015, <\/em>Glenn Altschuler, PhD \u201976, and Isaac Kramnick note that in 1948, President Edmund Ezra Day banned canines from the Willard Straight cafeteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA year later, the Daily Sun<\/em> began a campaign to keep them out of libraries, and in 1953 President Malott excluded them from graduation ceremonies,\u201d they write. \u201cBy 1959 dogs were persona non grata<\/em> in all university buildings, with the explanation that \u2018dogs in the library are destroying books and disturbing study conditions; dog fights in classrooms have occurred; and students and staff alike have been bitten.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, dogs again seemed to be everywhere by the late \u201960s and early \u201970s\u2014joining Commencement processions, accompanying students at protests and sit-ins, frolicking with each other, and (especially) lounging, both outdoors and in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Study buddies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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At course registration in Barton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A campus jape nodded at the dogs\u2019 ubiquity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The teacher\u2019s pet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Unleashed, outside Olin Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cTripod\u201c even made it into the 1959 Cornellian<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Picnic on the quad.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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This dogged acceptance may have been fueled by an oft-repeated but apocryphal legend: that a wealthy alum had bequeathed a great sum to Cornell, with the proviso that canines be allowed to roam free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later, the myth was given additional legs (so to speak) when Matt Ruff \u201987 repeated it in his fantastical novel Fool on the Hill<\/em>, which was set on campus\u2014and where, he wrote, a donor had \u201ccreated a codicil that granted free run of the campus to any and all dogs, \u2018be they stray or otherwise, for as long as this University shall endure.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ruff\u2019s novel may have cemented the perception of Cornell as dog friendly, Frank Costigliola, PhD \u201973, attributes it to the overall mood at the time he was on the Hill\u2014an era when intellectual rigor coexisted with a strong sense of the counterculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was tough, academically stringent, but there was also kind of a free atmosphere, symbolic of the rural environment,\u201d he says, \u201cand the dogs were part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Ezra Cornell \u201970, a direct descendant of the University\u2019s founder and its current life trustee, had a four-legged companion\u2014\u201ca wonderful dog, a true loyal friend\u201d\u2014during his last two years as an undergrad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ralph, a 50-pound sheepdog mix, lived with him in the Sigma Phi house and followed him to campus every morning\u2014waiting outside each building until it was time to go to his next class.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In dog we trust(ee): Ezra Cornell \u201970 and Ralph.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRalph greeted everyone on the Arts Quad, where he spent hours every day making friends, catching and chasing Frisbees and tennis balls,\u201d Cornell recalls. \u201cHe reduced the stress of students, staff, and faculty\u2014and made even non-dog people comfortable, with his wagging tail and big brown eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All images courtesy of Rare and Manuscript Collections<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published May 16, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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